Director Elyse Kelly, who’s Fired Up short film still resonates five years on, marks the launch of her studio by gathering 20 animators for a collaborative love letter to the diversity of America called “The Greatest Poem”. [Watch]
Category Animation, Character Animation, Featured, Illustration, Short Films · Tags Ana Mouyis, Angela Hsieh, Catalina Matamoros, Cathead Noise, Cynthia Chu, Dena Springer, Dorca Musseb, Elyse Kelly, Eric Larson, Lunar Year, Matea Losenegger, Megan Jedrysiak, Mithra Krishna, n Jackson Ammenheuser, Nazli Cem, Neon Zoo, Nijah Brown, Rohan McDonald, Sara Spink, Selina Donahue, Sofia Diaz, Yoon Su Lee, Zoë Soriano
Polish designer/animator/programmer Ksawery Kirklewski fuses the words of German philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein with the music of Max Cooper in this fascinating exploration of generative typography called “Symphony in Acid”. [Watch]
In what he calls “one of my most ambitious projects to date”, director and modern renaissance man GMUNK (aka Bradley G Munkowitz) crafts an epic short film called DECIMA, “exploring themes of mortality, empowerment, soul passage, and illumination.” [Watch]
Category Featured, Motion Design, Short Films, VFX · Tags Ben Lukas Boysen, Commandeer, GMUNK, João Vaz Oliveira, Jochen Mader, JOJX, Psyop, Shimmerkid
The non-stop CG experimentation at Media.Work continues in full force with their latest short film “Volna” (Russian for “wave”) exploring the intersection of sound and vision in concert with audio collaborator Artyom Markaryan. [Watch]
Brume, the new motion graphics studio founded by creative directors Benoit Drigny and Valentin Nouvel in Lyon, France, just dropped us their maiden project, a beautifully illustrated and surprisingly emotional short film for TED-Ed. [Watch]
The third season of David Fincher and Tim Miller’s much-loved (and lauded) adult animated anthology Love, Death & Robots drops on Netflix May 20th showcasing nine new films including work from Oscar winners Patrick Osbourne and Alberto Mielgo plus Buck, Axis Animation, and Fincher and Miller themselves. [Watch]
Category Animation, CG, Character Animation, Featured, Short Films · Tags Alberto Mielgo, Andy Lyon, Axis Animation, Blow Studio, Blur, Blur Studio, buck, Carlos Stevens, David Fincher, Death & Robots, Emily Dean, Jennifer Yuh Nelson, Jerome Chen, Love, Patrick Osborne, Pinkman, Polygon Pictures, Robert Bisi, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Tim Miller, Titmouse